Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-17

Mr.. GLADSTONE announces hit ne Will
personally Lead the opposition to coercion
in Parliament
The time for the reception &C osais
Tor furnishing steel for guns and armor
has been extended by the Secretary Of the
Navy from March Is to March y.
CHRISTINE NILSSON has at last been
married to Count Miranda, and it Is re-
ported that she will retire from the lyric
stage.
MIR. WILKINSON, the military CORE
spondent of the Manchester Guardian, was
| arrested recently at Cracow, Austrian
| Galicia, as a Russian spy. He was re-
| leased after twelve hours Imprisonment.
y PROPOSAL is being discussed to grant
| annually to the President of the German
Reichstag the sum of 10, 900 or 10000 marks
for the purpose of promoting informal
social gatherings of members of all par
| tics.
Louis BIERAL, who attempted to kill
! Surveyor of the Port Hans S. Beattie, in
| the New York Custom House. last Octo-
be", was sentenced on the 10th by Judge
Benedict, in the United States Circuit
Court. to five years confinement in the
State prison.
TIE failure of the old and wellknown
| house of l.. Levenson & Co, wholesale
clothiers, New York, was caused by dis
honest book-keeper. 1t seems that the
book-keeper, Edward NJ. Newman, has
pursued a clever system of Justification
for many years.
TIE Prince and Princess of Wales have
minated to Mrs. James Brown Potter
their intention of being present On the oc-
| casion of her debut ON the stage.
THE President will probably, within the
next few weeks, appoint new Minister
to Liberia, the Minister appointed to that
mission shortly after the beginning of the
presidential term having died, and the
mission now being vacant.
FIRST COMPTROLLER DUNHAM has de-
cided that the increase in the amount ap-
propriated by the last Congress from
$4,000 to 100000 to provide arms and
equipments for the militia does not be-
come available until July l next, the be-
ginning of the next fiscal year.
+. &. WHIPPLE, city editor of the Toledo
90 Bee, was cowhided on the 18th by Mrs.
Joseph Feack.
EARTHQUAKE shocks We're renewed in
Southern France and Italy on the 18th.
A BIG opium smuggling scheme has
been unearthed at Detroit, Mich, and one
of the smugglers is under arrest.
FOURTEEN more officers who were lead
ers III the Bulgarian revolt were shot on
the 9Th.
THE talk is revived in Washington of
Mr.. Thomas E. Tutt, of St. Louis, for Sec
Rotary of the Treasury.
DRAUGHTsMAN TERRY's treason with
maynard secrets is still annoying the
British House of Commons.
HESNEssY, the sergeant-at-arms of the
Texas Senate, has been arrested on ad-
ditional charges of peculation.
The Indiana Supreme Court, on the
18th, refused to grant a rehearing to
Smith in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
contest.
ARCHBISHOP KIRBY, ninety years of age,
is to be created cardinal for Ireland on
March Il. There is much rejoicing in Ire
land thereat
TIE result of the post-mortem eXami-
nation of the bodies of Robert and Cor
nella Denmead at New Brunswick, n. j.,
shows that they starved to death.
SECRETARY WHITNEY makes state
ment showing that the Government has
done no clandestine work in procuring
naval designs, having bought after ad
vertising.
TIE Septennate bill was put through
the formality of final passage in the Ger
man Reichstag on the 18th. 1t was car
RED by an overwhelming majority.
A BODY of ministers met at New York
on the 18th, with Rev. Mr.. Talmage at
their head, and passed resolutions on
Henry Ward Beecher's death, as an offset
to the orthodox action of Chicago.
INDIGNATION over the alleged reprehen-
sible course pursued by Mr.. Randall in the
management OF the appropriations bills in
the Forty-ninth Congress does not seem
to die out.
The Bulgarian Sobranje is to be de-
manded to furnish that country with
more stable government.
AN emigrant train on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad was wrecked on the 18th, and
sixteen of the people recently arrived by
the steamer Rhien were injured.
HENRY ARTS (colored) was hanged at
Middles boro, N. c., on the 18th, for the
murder of his step-daughter. He confessed
on the gallows.
THE keel of the new steel cruiser
Charles ton, which is to be built at San
Francisco will be laid early in April, and
the Carnegie-Pipps Steel Company at
Pitts burgh is working gangs Of men night
and day making the steel plates, the first
of which are expected at San Francisco
some time this week. The iron to be used
in the ship is beng rolled at San Francis
co.